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yup, my thought process is Ricky has a ton of ill will banked for reasons that were mostly out of his control. I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, mostly because we don't have a choice. I'm pretty firmly of the belief is that the good things that a baseball manager can do is almost entirely behind the scenes. But the one thing he did that absolutely drove me insane was all the bunting, and that's been entirely stopped until the other day. So has long as things are going well, and the team seems happy, I see no reason to litigate his position every day.

You’re right. But losing begets a shattered clubhouse and they’ve done A LOT of losing with these guys.

The Twins and Indians certainly aren't having as easy a time dealing with them.

I would keep playing Mazara against righties, as there is an outside chance he gets hot, not really the case with Engel. I hate both catchers being in the game at the same time, especially when one is DHing, so I'm probably still playing Edwin. These games ultimately don't matter, so may as well see if you get those guys going.

Also worth noting that the coach plays a MUCH more integral part to the sports you mentioned and stale ideas can become a problem.

Hows that going for them?

I would have yanked Eloy. But there’s all this consternation about lineup construction and pitching decisions, meanwhile the Sox have the best offense in the AL and the best team ERA over the past month. It’s absurd.

Ventura isn’t even the worst manager they’ve ever had.

Ricky is so bad at his job the White Sox have lost 5 of the last 30 games. if they don’t win the World Series this year, it will be because they don’t have enough pitching, not the manager.

Also the guy the Phillies brought in who made every decision exactly by the book was fired after a year because all the players couldn’t stand him.

I like him. I don’t like his team.

Speaking of, does Bing Bang Bing become Dont Stop Believing if they do the damn thing??

You should be fired on the spot letting Ta face a lefty there

Carlos Lee

I want to watch TA hit on a loop forever

I’ll never understand why teams shift Eloy

I don’t think he’s hit a spot

It is, but looks like it’s tracking pitches right

At the very least tag plays need to be unchallengeable

Give me replay on plays at first and like catch/no catch and absolutely nothing else

This is dumb as shit

You all are going to make me look forward to the day we can stop having this conversation.

The only numbers that you should to any attention to at this point are 20.2 and 34.

Well he’s been demonstrably better